“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

There seems to be a drug you are taking into your own system that is going against your system. An occasional thing I believe—having to do with a retention of fluid. Ruburt has no medical vocabulary. Let us see now; you should take those fruits that are strong in vitamin C, but are not acid. You should avoid acid fruits taken in one meal with milk. You should avoid all chocolate in any form. Now this is not forever, merely until the condition vanishes. You should not eat grapefruit now under any circumstances. Cranberry juice however is beneficial. You should avoid aspirin.

Fatty foods should be avoided. You should eat almonds. And watch your intake of sugars. Honey will not bother you. Give me a moment. Now. Symbolically in your case, and opposed to our Jesuit’s case, the retention of fluids has to do with the fear for your position, of refusal to give up, or the fear of giving up, prerogatives. (Pause.)

...Obviously an inability to relax, because you feel by relaxing you let down your hold... You should imagine in your spare moments, even driving, that poisonous fluids are disappearing from your system and leaving it free. The fluids represent bitterness that you will not let go of, and so you must tell yourself that your inner self possesses the answers—as it does—that it will guide you... You can therefore afford to let the bitterness go, for the bitterness is your enemy... The fluids are not in themselves poisonous, only their retention that makes them act upon your system.

(Jane took a break at 10:28. Her trance had been good. John Bradley said at first that he knew of nothing he is taking into his system that would encourage fluid retention. He said he very occasionally takes Metamucil, which is inert.

[...] People with such beliefs often have severe problems with constipation, and have retention symptoms — retaining water, for example, or salt or whatever.

[...] This includes of course the retention of its dreams, as well as the retention of purely physical data.

Remembering again your material of the spacious present, a portion of personality retention however still surrounds those physical reference points with which the personality was familiar.

In actuality this retention is mental, a mental attraction to other mental actions or personalities; but this attraction, while mental, still projects in certain fashions into the physical field. [...]

[...] You will also, it seems, be far more willing to accept such ideas, not quite as stubborn in the retention of old belief. [...]

[...] First of all there was a retention of image. [...]

Now while this association was his own, it was caused by the image retention carrying over from the first test. [...]

It is the same with the conscious retention of dreams in general. [...]

The swelling has to do with a chemical that encouraged in certain parts of the body only a retention of fluid, and this was aggravated by beer consumption, and also by the drinking of whole milk.

“Using these side pockets or pools where data are still unprocessed, in our terms, you can pick up several other strands of your own consciousness ‘at once,’ though retention may be difficult. [...]

The same curious mixture of nonpredictable and predictable activity operates in genetic patterning also, in which the genetic systems are largely set up to achieve the retention of specific characteristics, and yet can also demonstrate behavior that seems (underlined) to be genetically unfaithful, distorted, or to introduce alterations that might appear to be travesties upon genetic integrity.

[...] This includes the retention of its dreams as well as the retention of purely physical data. [...]

[...] Energy while being propulsive, is also retentive. [...]

4. In Appendix 4 for Session 685, Jane wrote of her attempts while in the dream state to sort out multidimensional, probable data of her own, and of how they collected for processing in sidepools of experience “before flowing into the ‘official pool of consciousness.’” Then, she added a bit later, through bypassing direct neurological activity, and using the “side pockets or pools where data are still unprocessed … you can pick up several other strands of consciousness ‘at once,’ though retention may be difficult.”

As within your universe, as a personality reincarnates into different form, you have the retention of the original personality, intact, with its memories in the subconscious; and you have the additional formation of a completely new personality time after time.

The ego receives, in fact, much of its stability because of this subconscious retention. [...]

[...] The ego, in fact, receives much of its stability because of this retention. [...]

“In fact, the ego receives much of its [relative] stability because of this subconscious retention. [...]